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"From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything. When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city's woefully underdeveloped lakeshore was available for development, and with Google co-founder Larry Page and his trusted chairman Eric Schmidt leaning into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the long-forsaken property--with Doctoroff as the urban-planning company's CEO--Sidewalk's bid crushed the competition. But as soon as the bid was won, cracks appeared in the partnership between Doctoroff's team and Waterfront Toronto, the government-sponsored organization behind the contest. There were hundreds more acres of undeveloped former port lands nearby that kept creeping into conversation with Sidewalk, and more questions were emerging than answers about how much the public would actually benefit from the Alphabet-owned company's vision for the high-tech neighbourhood--and the data it could harvest from the people living there. Alarm bells began ringing in the city's corridors of power and activism. To Torontonians accustomed to big promises with little follow-through, the fiasco that unfolded seemed at first like just another city-building sideshow. But the pained battle to reel in the power of Sidewalk Labs became a crucible moment in the worldwide battle for privacy rights and against the extension of Big Tech's digital might into the physical world around us. With extensive contacts on all sides of the debacle, O'Kane tells a story of global consequence fought over a small, forgotten parcel of mud and pavement, taking readers from California to New York to Toronto to Berlin and back again. In the tradition of extraordinary boardroom dramas like Bad Blood and Super Pumped, Sideways vividly recreates the corporate drama and epic personalities in this David-and-Goliath battle that signalled to the world that all may not be lost in the effort to contain the rapidly growing power of Big Tech."--

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system. Based on specific case studies, it gives examples of possible problems and ways of solving them. It applies to Poland's standard and the determinants of spatial policy in other countries. It provides the basis for a developed international discussion and concretely suggests specific actions at local, regional and national levels.

Economic Inequality and Poverty examines how methods for measuring inequality and poverty have evolved. Kakwani and Son draw on household surveys to demonstate a framework based on economic variables that can be applied to draw up evidence-based policies.

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition, describes technologies that actively convert solar radiation into useful heat in a temperature range from just above ambient up to more than 1,000(deg)C. Applications cover a broad range of energy services such as space heating, cooking, domestic hot water supply, electrical power generation, and high temperature thermochemical processes. The major developments that have led to currently available technologies for solar thermal energy applications were initiated mainly after the first oil shock in 1973. Solar thermal energy is widely used already for heating purposes (water, space) in the "e;low"e; temperature range up to about 100(deg)C employing mainly nonconcentrating collectors, whereas higher temperatures can be achieved with more sophisticated solar collector technologies. Temperatures over 200(deg)C typically require concentrating solar radiation using mirror systems. Several different technologies are described in detail in this volume, including solar collector systems in the lower temperature range, the direct use of solar radiation for food processing, namely cooking and drying, the production of electricity through conversion of solar radiation first to heat, driving a mechanical conversion system coupled to an electric generator, the use of solar radiation to drive chemical processes, and many more.

Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community tells of the Northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake, once the uranium capital of the world, which was devastated by the closing of the uranium mines operated by Denison and Rio Algom.

In 1989 the Dutch government published a National Environmental Policy Plan (Dutch abbreviation NMP). This NMP is based on the book Concern for Tomorrow. a national environmental survey by RIVM (the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection). A major conclusion of the RIVM study was that emissions of many pollutants had to be cut by 70 - 90 % in order to reach environmental quality goals. The government accepted the RIVM analysis and consequently ClUTent Dutch environmental policy aims at large reduction of pollutants. Another conclusion of the RIVM study was that such high reduction goals would not be easy to achieve by technological means alone, and that thus structural changes would be required. These changes could eventually lead to sustainable development, which now forms the major focus of Dutch government national environmental policy. This being so, the Dutch government requested that RIVM in subsequent issues of Concern for Tomorrow should investigate the options for sustainable development.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the most important water-related issues that centre on Italy, analysed from several disciplinary perspectives ¿ such as hydrology, economics, law, sociology, environmental sciences and policy studies ¿ in order to promote full understanding of the challenges the country is facing and the ways it could best tackle them.Despite the misconception that Italy is a water-scarce country, is in fact quite rich in water resources. Such resources, however, are unevenly distributed over the Italian territory. Italy¿s northern regions rely on quite an abundant quantity of freshwater, whereas in the southern area water endowment is limited. Moreover, climatic differences between North and South contribute to widen the divide. This disparity has notable consequences of socio-economic character, some of which, in turn, feed back into the environmental conditions of Italian regions: pollution, floods, landslides and droughts are among the problems affecting the country. There are numerous features of water use and consumption that distinguish Italy from other comparable countries, such as the significant role played by agriculture (a water-intensive activity), a lead position in the consumption of bottled water, lower-than-average prices of water and a far-from-optimal efficiency of waterworks. All such aspects, and many others, make Italy an essential case study.

Revised and updated for the 2nd edition, this textbook provides an analysis and investigation of the most essential areas of environmental economic theory and policy, including international environmental problems. The approach is based on standard theoretical tools, in particular equilibrium analysis, and aims to demonstrate how economic principles can help to understand environmental issues and guide policymakers. Current topics including climate change, overfishing and integrated approaches to environmental policies are carefully analyzed in this framework, and a multitude of practical examples from various parts of the world is presented. Addressing undergraduate and graduate students, this book is a must read for everybody interested in a better understanding of environmental economics.

Krankenhäuser sind komplexe Unternehmen auf dynamischen Märkten, deren Führung ein umfassendes Denken unter Berücksichtigung zahlreicher Interdependenzen erfordert. Der vorliegende Band entwickelt ein systemisches Krankenhausmanagement, das nicht nur die Prinzipien und Modelle der Allgemeinen Betriebswirtschaftslehre auf diesen Betriebstyp überträgt, sondern die Verknüpfung der Teilsysteme aufzeigt und schrittweise zu einem Steuerungsmodell eines nachhaltigen Krankenhauses entwickelt. In der aktualisierten und ergänzten Auflage wurden insbesondere die aG-DRGs in Finanzierung und Controlling und weitere Fallstudien bzw. Aufgaben berücksichtigt.

Einsendeaufgabe aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich BWL - Offline-Marketing und Online-Marketing, Note: 0,5, Deutsche Hochschule für Prävention und Gesundheitsmanagement GmbH, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es wird eine Marktanalyse durchgeführt. Die Texte und Darstellungen geben Informationen über das Unternehmen, die Positionierung im Markt und die Wettbewerber.Die Marktanalyse wird für ein ca. 1700qm großes Gesundheitsstudio durchgeführt. In dem Studio sollen Fitnesstrainer, Physiotherapeuten und eine Studioleitung angestellt sein, um eine optimale Strukturierung der Unternehmensabläufe, sowie eine individuelle Kundenbetreuung gewährleisten zu können. Öffnungszeiten sind von 06-22 Uhr angesetzt.Die auftraggebende Unternehmensgruppe möchte weiter expandieren, somit soll ein Konzept für ein Studio in der Stadt Dresden erstellt werden. Hier wurde zuerst der Standort in der Altstadt festgelegt. Die Hauptzielgruppe wird nun aus den Menschen, die dort angetroffen werden festgelegt und aus der Marktlücke an diesem Standort.

Why are some teams, businesses, countries and cultures successful and enduring, and some not? The book describes practical applications of collective intelligence, and unlocks the secrets of highly successful teams at all levels in corporations and governments. Well-known companies are analysed, and the reasons for their success or decline explained.The Mystery of Collective Intelligence proposes a new theory of organizational intelligence, explaining how organizational intelligence lies behind AI, robotics and the accelerating automation that is revolutionizing industry around the world. The book explains how organizations themselves can improve their decision-making cultures.The Mystery of Collective Intelligence describes the scientific basis for collective decision-making, and discusses how ethical and socially responsible corporate objectives lead to increased innovation and information sharing, which ultimately leads to improved economic success.

This book is concerned how to apply behavioral economy method to predict consumer behavior. This book divides two parts, first part introduce what is behavioral economy asn second part explains how environment influences consumer behavior. In Behavioral economics part , it can provide more realistic psychological foundations. This book is intended to explain why consumer behaviors and economy has close relationship and apply economic concept to explain how the consumer chooses to do whose consumption of decision.In part one, it shall indicate how the process of behaviour economic field develops, then I shall show what methods are used to measure behavioural economy. Next, I shall indicate what the main two categories of behavioural economy are as well as I shall explain what risky and uncertain outcomes of individual behavior economic theories are as well as what behavioral game theory is. Finally, I shall explain how policy makers or decision makers can apply behavioral economy concept to do whose policy decision as well as I shall also indicate why behavioral economy and psychology which has close relationship to influence consumption of decision.

'A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money' - Harry CleaverWhat would a world without money look like? This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power, environmental destruction and social inequality today, arguing that it has to be abolished rather than repurposed to achieve a postcapitalist future.Grounded in historical debates about money, Anitra Nelson draws on a spectrum of political and economic thought and activism, including feminism, ecoanarchism, degrowth, permaculture, autonomism, Marxism and ecosocialism. Looking to Indigenous rights activism and the defence of commons, an international network of activists engaged in a fight for a money-free society emerges.Beyond Money shows that, by organising around post-money versions of the future, activists have a hope of creating a world that embodies their radical values and visions.

First published in 2018 in India by Women Unlimited.

Sind Patienten inzwischen Konsumenten? Dieser Frage mit ihren Konsequenzen für die Gesundheitskommunikation geht dieses Fachbuch nach. Einleitend wird das aktuelle Konsumverhalten - als nicht rational handelnder Mensch - allgemein analysiert. Es folgt eine Analyse des Marktes im Gesundheitsbereich und seiner weiteren Entwicklung im Vergleich zum allgemeinen Markt, um entsprechende Analogien festzustellen. Nach einer Darstellung der in den letzten Jahren sich verändernden Patientenrolle werden die empirischen Ergebnisse des neuen Patientenverhaltens - auf Basis von Forschungsarbeiten des Autors - präsentiert. Im Rahmen einer analytischen Betrachtung der Patienten als Konsumenten werden die konkreten Veränderungen aufgezeigt und im Konsum-Modell schlüssig erläutert. Daraus ableitend werden neue wirkungsorientierte Ansätze für Aktionen und Interventionen im Gesundheitsbereich vorgestellt und Ausblicke in die Zukunft eines Gesundheitsmarktes gegeben, in dem der selbstbestimmte Patient als internationaler Konsument agiert. Dieses Buch ist wegweisend für alle, die Konzepte für eine zukunftsorientierte Gesundheitskommunikation entwickeln und umsetzen wollen. Besondere Bedeutung erhalten die behandelten Themen durch die aktuelle gesellschaftliche Relevanz von Gesundheitsvorsorge, Prävention und konkret auch von Impfverhalten (von Konsumenten).

This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal can conflict with other development goals such as decent work and economic growth. Furthermore, innovation in energy transition is introduced, both in technology and citizens¿ engagement. The book presents the latest developments on energy access and transition to sustainability throughout the overall value chain: from basic research in universities to documentation of lessons learned in the field. The empirical evidence presented makes this book appealing to scholars in the field of energy sustainability as well as to policy-makers and energy service companies.

Medicine itself is sick. We hardly understand any disease and therefore need to chronically treat symptoms but not the causes. Consequently, drugs and other therapies help only very few patients; yet we are pumping more and more money into our healthcare system without any added value.Thus, the internationally renowned physician researcher, Harald Schmidt, predicts the end of medicine as we know it. On a positive note, digitization will radically change healthcare and lead to one of the greatest socioeconomic revolutions of mankind. He is one of the pioneers of "systems medicine", a complete redefinition of what we actually call a "disease", how we organize medicine and how we use Big Data to heal rather than treat, to prevent rather than cure. In this book the author first proves the deep crisis of medicine, but describes how medicine will become more precise, more uniform, safer and, surprisingly, also more affordable. Making a diagnosis will be taken over by artificial intelligence. Current, mainly organ-based medical specialists, disciplines and hospital departments will disappear. Physicians will become patient coaches working in interdisciplinary teams with pharmacists, physiotherapists, nutritionists, etc. and relieved of their workload. Illnesses, including cancer, will be prevented or cured in a precise manner. We will become 100 years and older. Health care spending will shift from chronic treatment of diseases to prevention and health maintenance, thereby dramatically reducing overall costs. Health will become a common good. But Harald Schmidt also warns that those who are not open to digitization will not benefit from these advances and will be left behind. Anyone who wants to benefit from the revolution of medicine must have a digital twin. Is this futurism? No, each of us can have his or her personal genome sequenced, microbiome analyzed, keep an electronic health record. The future has begun.Schmidt convincingly explains the limitations in the current practice of medicine and the need for big data and a systems approach. Prof. Ferid Murad MD, PhD, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1998, USA Network Medicine, a new discipline that offers a network-based understanding of the cell and disease, is unavoidable if we wish to translate the advances in genomics into cures. Professor Harald Schmidt, a prominent expert in this space, offers the first coherent treatment of the topic, explaining the potential of a network-based perspective of human disease. Prof. Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USAVisionary, provocative, and full of insights. Professor Schmidt gives a unique and authoritative perspective to the past, present and future of medical science and clinical practice. And all presented in such an inimitable style. Prof. Robert F.W. Moulds, MBBS PhD FRACP, Former Dean Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical School, Australia

This edited volume explores the nature, scope, and consequences of the marketisation of higher education. Chapters identify different practices which reflect the marketisation of higher education, and offer various perspectives on the policies and procedures which stimulate and regulate it. The volume takes a holistic approach, following the notion that the marketisation of higher education both drives and is driven by the universities which form the higher education market.

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Pflegenden und Gesundheitsberufe und zeigt, wie man schwierigen Gesprächssituationen im Alltag souverän meistert. Gesundheitsberufe sind oft schwierigen Situationen ausgesetzt und müssen sich einiges von Angehörigen, Patienten, Bewohnern aber auch Kollegen anhören. Um nicht sprachlos alles über sich ergehen zu lassen und wie es gelingt, ¿hitzige¿ Situationen abzukühlen, erläutert das Pocketbuch. Einfache, aber wirkungsvolle Strategien werden vorgestellt, diese Gesprächssituationen souverän zu meistern und mit aufgebrachten, verärgerten Menschen umzugehen. Es werden verbale, nonverbale und paraverbale Strategien vorgestellt und durch konkrete Fallbeispiele vertieft. Mit kurzen Übungen kann das eigene Reaktionsverhalten trainiert werden.Sich abzugrenzen und Nein zu sagen, sind ebenfalls wichtige Fähigkeiten, um mit Freude seinen Beruf auszuüben. Besonders in Situationen, die einen emotional berühren, fällt das schwer und es werden oft die klassischen Stressreaktionen aktiv. Auch dafür gibt der Autor Hinweise, wie professionelle Distanz gelingt und der Ärger vom Arbeitstag nicht mit nach Hause auf das Sofa genommen wird.Ob Patient, Angehöriger oder Teamkollege ¿ die Tipps sind auf viele Gesprächssituationen übertragbar. Mit vielen Praxisbeispielen und Anregungen für den Arbeitsalltag. Für alle Angehörigen der Gesundheitsberufe ¿ damit es einem auch in schwierigen Situationen weder die Sprache verschlägt, noch einem der Kragen platzt.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie neue Health-as-a-Service-Geschäftsmodelle zu einer besseren Patientenerfahrung und zugleich Kostensenkungen beitragen können. Im Gesundheitssektor entstehen neue digitale Geschäftsmodelle der Plattformökonomie, die Vorteile für alle am Markt der Gesundheitsdienstleistung Beteiligten Akteuren ¿ inklusive des Patienten ¿ bringen können. Digitale, datengetriebene Gesundheitsangebote werden zu einer messbaren Verbesserung der Behandlungsqualität führen und zugleich die Effizienz der Leistungserbringung steigern. Dazu werden vermehrt auch Methoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz und des Maschinellen Lernens eingesetzt. Zudem erwarten Patienten, die in der Zukunft mehrheitlich der Gruppe der Digital Natives angehören werden, zunehmend eine individuelle Betreuung (Patienten-Journey). Alle Leistungsanbieter im Gesundheitsbereich müssen systematisch prüfen, welche Health-as-a-Service-Geschäftsmodelle entwickelt und wie diese erfolgreich umgesetzt werden können. Dieses Buch bietet dafür den fundierten Leitfaden.Inhalte aus folgenden ThemenbereichenDie Grundlagen der Plattformökonomie für das Gesundheitswesen verstehenWie Plattformen und Marktplätze das Gesundheitswesen verändernErfolgsfaktoren von Plattform-Geschäftsmodellen im GesundheitswesenKI als Enabler für Plattform-Geschäftsmodelle der ZukunftMit Beiträgen von:Dr. med. Henri Michael von Blanquet ¿ Precision Medicine Alliance, Föhr, DeutschlandTobias Chrobok ¿ Erlangen, DeutschlandTimo Frank ¿ Ada Health GmbH, Berlin, DeutschlandJulian Gansen ¿ Mementor GmbH, Berlin, DeutschlandClemens von Guenther ¿ Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, DeutschlandAnisa Idris ¿ Ada Health GmbH, Berlin, DeutschlandDr. Florian Koerber ¿ Flying Health GmbH, Berlin, DeutschlandDr. Lara Maier ¿ goetzpartners Holding AG, München, DeutschlandMarius Mainz ¿ GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH, Berlin, DeutschlandManon Mandel ¿ München, DeutschlandProf. Dr. Alessandro Monti ¿ CBS International Business School, Köln, DeutschlandProf. Dr. Volker Nürnberg ¿ BearingPoint GmbH, Frankfurt, DeutschlandProf. Dr. Erika Raab ¿ MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, DeutschlandProf. Dr. Christoph Rasche ¿ Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, DeutschlandProf. Dr. Dominik Rottenkolber ¿ Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, DeutschlandDr. Alexander Schachinger ¿ EPatient Analytics GmbH, Berlin, DeutschlandFrank Stratmann ¿ SMARTR.care, Schmallenberg, DeutschlandSophia Strube ¿ Ada Health GmbH, Berlin, DeutschlandMario Unterbrunner ¿ CHECK24 Vergleichsportal, München, DeutschlandStephanie Widmaier ¿ BearingPoint GmbH, Frankfurt, DeutschlandHenry Alexander Wittke ¿ Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg

Nach der Krise ist vor der Krise! Egal ob Pandemie, arztliche Kunstfehler, Hackerangriffe, Naturkatastrophen, Fachpersonalmangel oder wirtschaftliche Probleme: Gesundheitseinrichtungen sind im Grunde genommen permanent Risiken ausgesetzt, die sie in groe Schwierigkeiten sturzen oder gar in Existenznote bringen konnen. Die Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeiten von Schadensereignissen mogen noch so gering sein, vollig auszuschlieen sind diese nie. Daher ist es wichtig, wahrend einer Ausnahmesituation fur Stabilitat zu sorgen, um die Folgen weitgehend abzumildern. Professionelles Krisen- und Stabilitatsmanagement ist jedoch nicht nur im akuten Fall bedeutsam, sondern weit daruber hinaus eine Daueraufgabe und beginnt bereits im Vorfeld einer Krise, um deren Folgen moglichst abzuwenden oder es gar nicht erst kommen zu lassen. Es geht somit uber das eigentliche Krisenmanagement hinaus und tragt mit seinen Vorkehrungen dazu bei, im Falle des Eintritts einer Krisensituation moglichst gut vorbereitet zu sein, diese gut zu bewaltigen und - auch unter gegebenenfalls veranderten Bedingungen - stabile Verhaltnisse fur das Fortbestehen und den neuen betrieblichen Alltag einer Gesundheitseinrichtung zu schaffen.Anhand von 10 Leitfragen und daraus abgeleiteten Kapiteln werden die wichtigsten Pfeiler eines Stabilittsmanagements fr Gesundheitseinrichtungen aufgezeigt und anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen, Tabellen und Grafiken veranschaulicht. Konkrete Handlungsanleitungen untersttzen bei der Umsetzung in die Praxis. Fr den Schnellzugriff"e; enthlt ein Glossar am Ende des Buches Kurzbeschreibungen wichtiger Fachbegriffe des Stabilitts-, Risiko- und Krisenmanagements.